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ISAAC LEE HORNE, OF WEST GRAHAM, VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALFITO PHILIP BURKETT, OF WEST GRAHAM, VIRGINIA. i

BULLETIN CABINET.

A lication filed. August 29, 1924. Serial no. 734,972.

To all w/zlom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC Lnu HORNE, a citizen of the United States, residing at West Graham, in the county of Tazewell and State of Virginia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bulletin Cabinets, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my said inventionis the provision of an extremely simple, strong, and easily operated and durable bulletin cabinet in the nature of an indicator, de-

signed to be used to advantage in railway stations for announcing trains and also adapted to be employed for other indicating purposes. v y

My invention consists in my cabinet or indicator as hereinafter described and definite ly claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification Figure 1 is a front elevation of the device constituting the preferred embodiment of my invention.

Figure 2 is a view of the same with the top wall removed and with the casing body in section.

Figure 3 is a vertical cross-section taken in the plane indicated by the line 3-3 of Figure 2.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings.

Among other elements my novel device comprises a casing body 1 on which is fixed in appropriate manner a top wall 2. The front wall of the casing body 1 is designated by 3, and it will be noted that the said front wall is provided with a plurality of openings designated by 4, 5, 6 and 7. These openings are preferably, though not neceseerily provided with glass or other appropriate transparent material, the glass being resorted to in order to exclude dust and dirt from the interior of the casing.

Extending longitudinally in the casing body 1 and carried by the end walls thereof as appears in Figure 2 is a shaft 8 which may be and preferably is made fast to the casing body.

Loosely mounted on the said shaft 8 are four (more or less) wheels 9, 10, 11 and 12. Each of the said wheels is provided at one side with a ratchet disk 13, and in conjunction with each ratchet is employed a pawl which is resilient in character and 1s fixed to and extends upwardly from the bottom wall ofthe casing body 1 so as to engage its respective disk in a vertical plane back of the vertical plane of the shaft 8 as appears in Figure 391 also employ in conjunction with each of the said wheels and its ratchet disk 13 a vertically swinging lever 15 fulcrumed on and connected to the shaft 8 and provided with a spring pressed dog 16 arranged to engage its respective ratchet as shown in Figureil, and in conjunction with each lever 15," I employ retractile spring 16 and a pendent rod 17. Each spring 16* is connected to its respective lever 15 and is interposedbetween said lever and the top'wall 2 to which it connected at its upper endas shown. Each rod 17 is connected "to its respective lever 15 and is carried downwardly and through an opening 18 in the bottom wall of the body 1 and is provided with an appropriate handle grasp 19. It will be noted that the construction described is positive in operation, and that the parts appurtenant to each of the four wheels normally rest in the positions shown in Figure 3. Therefore, when it is desired to turn any one of the said wheels about its axis it is simply necessary for an operator to pull downwardly on the handle 19 in connection with the particular wheel to the extent desired for the movement of the wheel through a greater or less portion of a circle; and it will also be noted when the handle 19 is released the spring 16 will promptly return the lever-15 to the position shown in Figure 3, while the pawl 14: will prevent retrograde movement of the wheel and will also exert pressure against the periphery of the ratchet disk 13 and thereby prevent casual movement of the wheel in the direction in which it is moved by downward movement of the lever 15.

As shown in Figure 1 the openings in the casing body 1 are provided with legends appropriate to a railway station and having to do with the expected arrival of trains,

7 until the desired number or legend is displayed through the opening opposite and in the same vertical plane as the periphery of the. particular wheel.

It will be'apparent from the foregoing that my novel bulletin cabinet is not only highly useful, but is simple and durable in construction and is susceptible of being conveniently actuated for the, display of the information that it is desired to impart.

The construction herein shown and described constitutes the preferred embodiment of my invention and Ihave specifically described such construction in order to impart .an exact understanding of the same. It is'to be understood, however, that the scope of my invention is defined by my appended claim within which changes or modifications may be made without departure from my invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire :to secure by Letters- Patent, isz--- The cornbinationin a bulletin cabinet, of

a casing body having display openings in one wall thereof indicating wheels supported in said casing body opposite the said disripheries of the ratchet disks respectively at one side of the center of movementthereof, vertically swinging levers arranged alongside said ratchet disks and movable about a. i

said center of movement, dogs carried by said levers and arranged to engage the ratchet disks at the opposite sides of the center of movement to the said resilient pawls, retractile springs interposed between. and connected to the levers and the casing top and rods connected to the levers at the connectionof the springs therewith and extending throu hopenings in the bottom of the casing b0 y and hand grasp portions on the rods and arranged below said bottom. In testimony whereof I affixmy signature.

ISAAC LEE HORNE. 

